Blackadder
Season 2
6 listed hours · 1983–1989 · BBC One
From the desk
How this season is filed
Rowan Atkinson's historical snark escalator: medieval, Elizabethan, Regency, then the trenches. Baldrick's cunning plans, Hugh Laurie's upper-class vacancy, and a final Goes Forth episode that still drops the floor out of the joke. Peak 1980s UK comedy export — start anywhere, but finish in the mud. Tony Robinson's dogsbodies are the secret engine.
TV Flash files Season 2 of Blackadder (1983–1989) on BBC One as a mid listed season (2; 2 of 4) — 6 listed hours, 1986-01-09–1986-02-20 from “Bells” (S02E01) to “Chains” (S02E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S02E01 Bells
Bells is the Elizabethan reset: Blackadder II climbing the escalator, Hugh Laurie still in the wings of the joke.
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S02E01 Bells
The Blackadder genes resurface in Elizabethan England in the guise of Edmund, great-great-grandson of the repulsive original. Blackadder is struck by Cupid's arrow when he takes on a new servant - a girl named Bob.
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S02E02 Head
When Edmund is appointed lord high executioner, he moves a beheading forward from Wednesday to Monday, so he and his staff can enjoy some time off. But he didn't take into account the queen's tendency to change her mind.
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S02E03 Potato
To keep up with Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund announces he will navigate the treacherous waters of the Cape of Good Hope.
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S02E04 Money
Edmund is in trouble when he is visited by a debt-collecting bishop armed with a red-hot poker.
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S02E05 Beer
There are problems in the Blackadder household due to an embarrassing incident with a turnip, an ostrich feather and a puritanical fat aunt.
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S02E06 Chains
The evil Prince Ludwig kidnaps both Blackadder and Lord Melchett, and the Queen remembers Blackadder's earlier advice to have nothing to do with any ransom notes. Is our hero doomed, or does Baldrick have a cunning plan?
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